chcmama
Mouseketeer
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- Jun 30, 2007
Day 9: Downtown Disney and Daytona Beach
It is our last day and we didn't have any real plans except we wanted to go to downtown disney and we had reservations at Beaches and Cream at 2:00. DH and I walked across the street for coffee and he is feeling like he has a cold, not good. Once the kids were dressed and ready we went to the waffle house for breakfast. We were going to go to Golden Corral for the breakfast buffet but remembered that 17yo dd can't go to buffets (immunosuppressed after her transplant so buffets are just too iffy with possibility of contamination) Apparently everyone decided to have breakfast there and we were waiting outside for a table. In the parking lot was a little building that sells tickets and has brochures so dh went in and was looking at brochures for ideas of things to do. I had suggested Disney Quest to the kids, thinking they would enjoy that and dh and I would just wander DTD with no kids but none of the kids wanted to do it.
I was pretty surprised. DH found brochure on Daytona Beach and suggested we head there after our Beaches and Cream reservation. I wasn't that excited about it since we wouldn't have much time there but he got all the kids on board so that became our plan. After breakfast we went back to our room, got stuff packed up and headed to DTD. 14yo dd found mickey ears she wanted and both the girls got names put on them.
We looked around at a few stores and then headed to Wonderful World of Disney for our final shopping. DH took Caleb back to the lego store again. Once we finished up we left for Beaches and Cream and some yummy ice cream!
This was our only reservation where we had to wait past our reservation time before being seated. DH was not feeling good now and just sat outside half sleeping until we were called to our table. We came here last time dh and 14yo dd had to come back. They shared a No Way Jose last time and this time they were getting there own.
Caleb, of course, wanted food so he got a hot dog kids meal (which came with ice cream),
17yo dd was having a hard time deciding and the waitress had come back a couple times already to ask if we were ready, we thought she was ready and she ordered the milky way sundae, but then she was mad saying she hadn't decided and we rushed her…umm we gave her plenty of time and she told us she was ready, oh well the milky way sundae was amazing and dh even told her she could order something else if she wanted to but she didn't
I got the brownie a la mode, I would have gotten one of the sundaes but I know that I couldn't eat it all.
17yo dd couldn't finish hers so I had a little and let my ice cream loving 14yo finish it. We put all our plates in front of her so it looked like she ate it all
Once we finished we left for the beach, I would say we should have done some more research and really thought this through. We hadn't gotten too far on the freeway before we realized we were going to be fighting traffic for awhile. DH kept saying, we made a mistake, we shouldn't go right now, going to take forever. We all said, ok, lets not go, it is fine, none of us cared we could hang out at the resort, he could sleep and get some rest since he wasn't feeling good. Nope, we forged ahead. Took us an extra 45 minutes to get out there, but we there in time to see the sunset (although this west coast girl is used to seeing them over the ocean
and it was getting dark so this was our view of the beach
and it was SUPER windy! We walked on the pier out to Joe's Crab shack and felt like we were going to get blown away! We had dinner there and none of really liked it that much. I had coconut shrimp and I liked it but by the time we left my stomach was feeling all the grease I took in. 17yo dd got some sort of crab stuffed shrimp and she said the crab didn't taste good, was just mushy, dh had some sort of sampler and he said the same thing about the crab he had, and 14yo dd had fish and chips, she liked it ok but everything was greasy so we all left feeling blah
We left and drove back, yep we drove out there just to have dinner and drove back, too cold and windy to be outside at all. We got back and we all packed and dh fell right asleep. Luckily the morning wasn't going to be too early so I was able to let everyone sleep in in the morning. I got most of the packing done that night though so figured the morning would go smoothly.
It is our last day and we didn't have any real plans except we wanted to go to downtown disney and we had reservations at Beaches and Cream at 2:00. DH and I walked across the street for coffee and he is feeling like he has a cold, not good. Once the kids were dressed and ready we went to the waffle house for breakfast. We were going to go to Golden Corral for the breakfast buffet but remembered that 17yo dd can't go to buffets (immunosuppressed after her transplant so buffets are just too iffy with possibility of contamination) Apparently everyone decided to have breakfast there and we were waiting outside for a table. In the parking lot was a little building that sells tickets and has brochures so dh went in and was looking at brochures for ideas of things to do. I had suggested Disney Quest to the kids, thinking they would enjoy that and dh and I would just wander DTD with no kids but none of the kids wanted to do it.
I was pretty surprised. DH found brochure on Daytona Beach and suggested we head there after our Beaches and Cream reservation. I wasn't that excited about it since we wouldn't have much time there but he got all the kids on board so that became our plan. After breakfast we went back to our room, got stuff packed up and headed to DTD. 14yo dd found mickey ears she wanted and both the girls got names put on them.
We looked around at a few stores and then headed to Wonderful World of Disney for our final shopping. DH took Caleb back to the lego store again. Once we finished up we left for Beaches and Cream and some yummy ice cream!
This was our only reservation where we had to wait past our reservation time before being seated. DH was not feeling good now and just sat outside half sleeping until we were called to our table. We came here last time dh and 14yo dd had to come back. They shared a No Way Jose last time and this time they were getting there own. 
Caleb, of course, wanted food so he got a hot dog kids meal (which came with ice cream),
17yo dd was having a hard time deciding and the waitress had come back a couple times already to ask if we were ready, we thought she was ready and she ordered the milky way sundae, but then she was mad saying she hadn't decided and we rushed her…umm we gave her plenty of time and she told us she was ready, oh well the milky way sundae was amazing and dh even told her she could order something else if she wanted to but she didn't
I got the brownie a la mode, I would have gotten one of the sundaes but I know that I couldn't eat it all.
17yo dd couldn't finish hers so I had a little and let my ice cream loving 14yo finish it. We put all our plates in front of her so it looked like she ate it all
Once we finished we left for the beach, I would say we should have done some more research and really thought this through. We hadn't gotten too far on the freeway before we realized we were going to be fighting traffic for awhile. DH kept saying, we made a mistake, we shouldn't go right now, going to take forever. We all said, ok, lets not go, it is fine, none of us cared we could hang out at the resort, he could sleep and get some rest since he wasn't feeling good. Nope, we forged ahead. Took us an extra 45 minutes to get out there, but we there in time to see the sunset (although this west coast girl is used to seeing them over the ocean
and it was getting dark so this was our view of the beach
and it was SUPER windy! We walked on the pier out to Joe's Crab shack and felt like we were going to get blown away! We had dinner there and none of really liked it that much. I had coconut shrimp and I liked it but by the time we left my stomach was feeling all the grease I took in. 17yo dd got some sort of crab stuffed shrimp and she said the crab didn't taste good, was just mushy, dh had some sort of sampler and he said the same thing about the crab he had, and 14yo dd had fish and chips, she liked it ok but everything was greasy so we all left feeling blah
We left and drove back, yep we drove out there just to have dinner and drove back, too cold and windy to be outside at all. We got back and we all packed and dh fell right asleep. Luckily the morning wasn't going to be too early so I was able to let everyone sleep in in the morning. I got most of the packing done that night though so figured the morning would go smoothly.
We had a pretty long layover in Chicago but at this point didn't look like we would make it so i got in the long line to find out our options. DH kept disappearing (apparently he was going to blow his nose but it was getting stressful for me that every time I turned around I couldn't find him and he would never say anything to me) Before I even got to the front of the line they announced they did have the part and were fixing the plane and now it seemed we would get to Chicago in time.
